Second ingredient: Peanut Butter. Everyone has this. I know there’s no shortage of nut butter in the cupboards of bloggers and blog readers.

Third ingredient: Chocolate chips. Everyone has these, especially if you read my blog.

Now everyone can have these.

They’re so easy and spot on with the flavor of real Butterfingers that these are dangerous. I’m not even kidding.

I’ve always wished I could just have Butterfinger centers. Fold back the chocolate and just get to that flaky-textured, peanut buttery-flavored orange stuff. I’ve also wished I could duplicate just that orange stuff at home.

Line a small baking dish with aluminum foil, parchment, or plastic wrap. Make sure you have this ready to go. (I used a 5 x 5 Gladware plastic container meant for leftovers that I lined with foil and also sprayed with cooking spray)

In a microwave safe bowl, melt the candy corn. This will go fast. Approximately 30 seconds (50-60 seconds, max).

Have your peanut butter waiting on a big spoon and the second you take the candy corn out of the microwave, stir in the peanut butter. If it hardens up on you too fast, place mixture back into the microwave for 10 seconds or so, until you can stir it to be smooth.

Take your smooth mixture and put it into your baking dish, pushing it down with a spoon or your hands. Work quickly. Place this into the freezer.

Next, melt your chocolate chips. If you want more/less of a chocolate layer, use more/less chips.

Remove the baking dish from the freezer, pour melted chocolate over it. Place in freezer and allow to set up for 10 minutes or so, slice & enjoy.

Tips:

Spray your microwave-safe bowl with cooking spray before you add the candy corn and begin microwaving and melting it. It will dramatically help with cleanup.

Line your baking dish with aluminum foil, parchment, or plastic wrap. It will dramatically help with cleanup.

Double or triple the recipe as needed in a 1:3 ratio, i.e. 1 cup Peanut Butter to 3 cups candy corn, and use a 8 x 8 baking dish or similar.

You could make Butterfinger Truffles by cutting squares or rectangles with a knife or pizza cutter of the hardened orange mixture, and then submerging those into a chocolate bath. I personally did not need the entire bar coated in chocolate because it’s quite rich just having chocolate on one side, but to each her own.

Here was my Gladware container that I made them in. First I poured down the orange layer, and let that cool. Then I poured down the chocolate layer and let that cool. Sliced and ate.

Tastes.just.like.a.real.Butterfinger

It’s unreal how close the candy corn + PB mixture approximates the taste of that orange Butterfinger center we’ve all come to know and love.

Or that I have come to know and love.

In terms of texture, they also have that flaky crisp and crunch like store-bought Butterfingers. And boy, did those flakes ever make for plenty of photography out-takes. Note to self: flaking candy bars are not easy to work with.

The homemade bars have a slight degree of chewiness to the orange center. Not much more than store-bought Buttefingers, but just a tiny bit of extra chew, which I enjoyed.

And even if you’re not a candy corn fan, the bars don’t taste like candy corn. They taste like Butterfingers!

Because I used semi-sweet chocolate chips, the chocolate is darker and richer on the homemade Butterfingers bars compared to store bought, which have more of a milk chocolate coating. I prefer dark to milk chocolate, any day.

I also opted to just keep the chocolate on top, rather than dunking the entire thing into a chocolate bath. You could, but these were plenty rich with just chocolate on one side, and that’s saying something especially coming from me.

And as I said in the recipe portion, you could also make the orange pieces smaller and dip or fully coat them witth chocolate, thereby making Butterfinger “Truffles”

These are my take on Butterfinger Mini’s.

These are so easy. Go on, make some. I know you’ve got candy corn lurking in your cabinets, and if you don’t, go buy some just to make these.

Questions:

1. Do you like Butterfinger candy bars?

You could of course just buy Butterfingers, but then you wouldn’t get to re-invent the wheel but that would take the fun out of wondering what to do with leftover candy corn.

The other nice thing is that you control what goes into these. You know what ingredients are going in, so in a roundabout way, somehow they are probably better for you than storebought Butterfingers. You know, because candy bars of any type are good for you and all, right?

2. What do you do with your leftover Halloween candy?

I’ve seen chocolate bark that’s sort of a candy bar dumping grounds, i.e. throw in bits of Snickers and Milky Way hunks, add M & M’s and gummi bears, whatever you have on hand, add it all to melted chocolate, spread on a sheet pan, and create a candy bark smorgasboard with your leftover candy. Any type of flavor combo goes.

I’ve also seen the same principle but applied to popcorn. Popcorn, plus candy bar odds and ends are added, then a caramel mixture is made and poured over it, bake it all in the oven for 10-20 minutes, and candy bar infused caramel corn is born.

Nothing like a few low-sugar recipes, eh? Just go to Pinterest and if you need ideas. Prepare to drool.

Wow, haha I love this idea! I’m going to lie to you and say I like butterfingers… and candy corn :S can we still be friends?

Wow Averie….you went to town with these treats. Just pinned all the glorious sweetness :)

Thank you my friend…I made them TODAY. And did the photos and the editing today. I just had to post them…asap. Thanks for the pins my friend. I see your pins everywhere and re-pin and ‘like’ whenever I see them :)

Lmk your thoughts if you make them!

Who knew??!? I do now, thanks to you :) CAN’T WAIT TO MAKE THESE!!! Awesome!

My older sister always picked the Butterfinger when we went shopping for “treats” with our parents. I never liked them. I am not sure what it was about that candy bar that I didn’t like, but I usually picked M&M’s with almonds or Snickers!

Got a snickers bar we can make, Averie? :-)

We are going out of town for Halloween weekend. We don’t really do the whole deal so it’s nice to get away!

congrats on your job!!!!!! this is what you’ve worked 10+ years, mi-an, to do and have…congrats!!! I am so incredibly happy for you.

i know you’ll miss CA but you’ll be living in NY. You are gonna love it, I know :)

xoxo

You know my thoughts on these bars already, but the pictures are great! Love the orange glow on them too. I wonder what makes them flaky? I was thinking about adding some graham crackers or something, but I don’t need to, huh?

the flaky i am guessing comes from changing the molecular structure of the sugar in the heating process…denaturing the molecules. hey wait, don’t you have a phD in science? :)

Was there something wrong with my comment about thinking the addition of graham crackers sounded good? Why would you delete that? I was just agreeing with your commenter… nothing wrong with that. There is nothing “negative” about agreeing with someones idea. Perhaps you think since it is altering your idea it is wrong… aren’t all recipes just altering and adapting ideas?
I’m sure this will be deleted as well, but you have lost a reader.

None of your comments were ever deleted. Calm down, please :)

I could do an attached screenshot and email it to you if you want me to. I hope you continue to read my blog because no, I never deleted your comments. The 3 you have left me are all still here and have been, check the screen again and reply back if you’d like me to email you a screenshot.

I think graham crackers sounds like a heavenly addition! Great idea! Perhaps cornflakes or something fun for the crunch:)

yes they sound good in theory but the orange mixture is pretty thick and I can’t imagine adding anything dry to it, making it even thicker, but if you have success or try a variation, I’d love to hear it.

katie and i are good friends and we bantered about this on email too :)

Averie, this is SUCH a creative and good idea!

make them!

How on earth did you figure out that those three things combined would taste like Butterfingers!!!!?? That is pretty crazy, and I am intrigued. Good work! The bars look awesome, and I don’t like candy corn :-)

OMG!!! Girl, you are killing me over here!! I love butterfingers and haven’t had them in years upon years!!!! I haven’t ever seen candy corn really for sale! LOL! But now I’m going to look!!

xxoo

no your choc covered potato chips take the cake of I want them!!!

i’ve never had a butterfingers choc bar! and i think the last time i tried candy corn i was about 12!
let’s pretend i have a hallowe’en party to go to…i’d make these bars. something about melting candy corn is very fun!! and i think i would try dunking them in the chocolate bath…of course, this is all hypothetical!

I have no idea how you came up with using candy corn as a Butterfinger filler… genius! I definitely used to love Butterfinger when I was younger, but I haven’t had one in years. Love this! :)

I have never had leftover candy corn…it is a weakness I have. I haven’t had it in so long since the stuff you buy around here is contaminated (on shared equipment). I’m with you, while you could just buy it…it’s way more fun to make these things! Looks beautiful!

These look seriously good, Averie. And I love how simple they are too.

At my last job, the company had a snack room and always had mini butterfingers. It was a very dangerous situation for me. haha

oh mannn I love the photos and descriptions… these do sounds wonderful. What I love about butterfingers is how they kind of get stuck in your back teeth and you have stuff to work on for a while, extending their peanut buttery goodness for even longer :) Have an awesome weekend Averie!

These are so artfully and tastefully (no pun intended) displayed; they look soooo delicious! I am practically drooling reading this. Great work!

I can’t wait till I move to a big city in January; right now I’m in a small podunk town where they look at you funny if you ask for vegan anything. It’ll make getting ingredients for things like this so much easier!

thanks for the photo compliments…I didn’t really love the pics from this shoot but I wasn’t going to re-shoot them. So thanks for saying you liked them.

And good luck with your move!

I LOVE butterfingers – but u dont get them here and Im almost forgotten they existed!! You dont get candy corn here either tho, so Im flummoxed on both counts. AND we dont get candy for Halloween so I cant even answer that.
One thing we do get however is a TON of chocolate around Christmas. My general strategy with that is to pretend Im going to give it away and then gradually, all through January, sub out my healthy breakfasts until I am living off chocolate truffles and tea before 11am. Soon enough I have a morning long headache, some new cavities and Im wondering what the heck is GOING ON when Im training for a nutrition diploma… and then finally the chocolate is all gone and I can go back to being me!!! YAY!!!

You are a genius!!!! I’m not a huge fan of candy corn, but I love Butterfingers…I’m going to hunt down some candy corn today and trying these tonight! Thank you so much for posting this :)

lmk if you tried them!

I made them tonight!! They are soooo good! I melted my candy corn too much though, I was cooking supper at the same time and when I looked back in the microwave it was bubbling..still amazing and ate half the batch, they are just really chewy!

I LOVE Butterfingers! And I never would have thought I could make them with candy corn. You’re a genius!

you would love these then if you love BF’s!

I made a very similar recipe yesterday! It was equal parts candy corn and peanut butter by weight and I dunked them in chocolate. So good. My only complain was that my candy corn took FOREVER to melt – like over three minutes. Oh well, totally worth it in the end!

Amazing!! I so love anything butterfinger, health bar, toffee, caramel….I am running to the store to make these today!

I love that you try my goodies…LMK what you think of them, ok! :)

You’re brilliant. And of course, I LOVE butterfinger, so we can definitely still be friends :) They used to sell Butterfingers where my brother did Tae Kwon Do and I would buy two of them and sit in the car munching away while my brother got his Hi-Ya! on. Obviously I had my priorities straight, even as a kid.

I also have these which are Halloween-ish and you can use margarine

Not that you need any more recipes…you put together an impressive list!

L.A. in the hizzle! I wish I could eat candy corn (or maybe I don’t really because I don’t know when to stop and only place myself into sugar coma when I do eat them…) What a great idea to use this as the base for Butterfingers! Genius, really…

Glad to meet another SoCal chica :)

Those look delicious, I never would of thought of adding candy corn! I adore Butterfingers and basically any “crappy” candy (by Mars or Hershey’s) that is awful for you but so so hard to resist. :) Have a great Halloween.

Averie–LOVED this recipe–made a whole pan and it’s almost gone! You are so talented!

Glad they were a hit!

This is amazing! You’re a genius, Averie!

I wonder if there’s a way to make them chewier as opposed to flakier. I’m sure there’s some sort of food-science rule that would tell me how to, but I’d probably just try trial-and-error. Too lazy, haha.

Wow – butterfingers were my all time favorite when I was growing up! I also have a weakness for candy corn and of course peanut butter… I wish I never read this! :)

Great blog, I just came across it this morning!

O-M-G!!! If I still had candy corn in the house I’d be dropping everything I’m doing and making these RIGHT now. I have a severe love for Butterfingers but only allow myself to eat them at Halloween. These look divine AND my daughter is gluten free which means the are a great treat for her. THANK YOU!!! I’m hopping over from http://www.bargaingab.com, if you feel like stopping by!

Glad they look good to you. Enjoy!

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